Playlists range from 20 to 30 songs, are curated by "Amazon's Music Experts" and come with titles like "Pop to Make You Feel Better," "Boss, Not Bossy" and "Bedford Ave. Hipster Hits." More generic collections include hits from popular bands and artists, while single tracks can be found by searching the Prime Music library.

Users can add to a Prime Music library, which is accessible on Macs and PCs via Amazon's CloudPlayer, while smartphone playback is handled by the Amazon Music app.

At the moment, it appears as though Prime Music's social element ends at playlist reviews — none were available at the time of this writing since the service just launched — though there is an option in the Web player to broadcast the currently playing song to your Facebook friends.

Finally, the trial version of Prime Music pulled in 47 songs from our personal library using AutoRip, the Amazon equivalent of iTunes Match. It is unclear how Amazon gained access to the list as the songs were purchased through iTunes in 1999 and we gave no permission for a system scan.

In any case, Prime Music's Web view and overall aesthetic is more in line with Amazon's other value added services like Prime Instant Video than a polished standalone offering. Searches are conducted through Amazon's usual search bar and available music is displayed in an identical manner to Amazon's Digital Music Store.

Amazon Prime Music is available now for Prime subscribers who pay an annual rate of over $79. The company is offering a free 30-day trial — actually a promotional Prime membership — that automatically converts into a $99 per year annual fee at the end of the period. For now, Prime Music is limited to the U.S.

Please consider in your news the fact that some of your readers are living outside of the US. As one reader from the UK has already mentioned the service is not available in the UK, the same is true for Germany.

Let's hope it goes better than the Prime Instant streaming TV service in UK, on launch Amazon claimed it would work on smart TVs that Amazon actually knew it didn't work on (as I found after much complaint and email exchanging with the support people) - 2014 models, not ancient ones

Finally, the trial version of Prime Music pulled in 47 songs from our personal library using AutoRip, the Amazon equivalent of iTunes Match. It is unclear how Amazon gained access to the list as the songs were purchased through iTunes in 1999 and we gave no permission for a system scan.

iTunes in 1999? AI must've gone back in time before the iTunes store was created...</s>